Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 5, No. 0110. Saturday, 12 February 1994.
(1) From: Skip Shand <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 11 Feb 1994 13:30 EDT
Subj: Spin-offs Again (!)
(2) From: Christine Mack Gordon <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 11 Feb 1994 12:55:43 -0600
Subj: SPINOFF BIBLIO
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From: Skip Shand <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 11 Feb 1994 13:30 EDT
Subject: Spin-offs Again (!)
This is to announce three new spin-offs by one of our own, David McFadden,
who has three new poems in the current issue of *The Malahat Review* 105
(Dec.93): "Timon of Athens", "Much Ado About Nothing", and "Blue Angel"
(much Marlene, of course, but much Sonnet 32, too). Nifty poems. I took the
"Much Ado" poem into my closing class on the play yesterday, read it to the
class a few times, and let it open up corners of the play we hadn't been right
into. My students liked the poem a lot, and they were fascinated to listen
to a poet reading the play and reading the film and talking about a need for
the "imaginative bower" at the centre of comedy, the place
"Where Don John, a man of few words,
Can freeze our hearts and kill our love."
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From: Christine Mack Gordon <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 11 Feb 1994 12:55:43 -0600
Subject: SPINOFF BIBLIO
Here are a few things that could be added:
under the Henriad:
the director of *My Own Private Idaho* is Gus Van Sant
Kenneth Branagh, *Henry V* (screen adaptation, London: Chatto & Windus, 1989)
under Macbeth:
the director of *Men of Respect* is William Riley
under The Merchant of Venice:
two related novels are
Faye Kellerman, *The Quality of Mercy* (Ballantine Books, 1989)
Erica Jong, *Serenissima* (Houghton Mifflin, 1987)
Much Ado About Nothing
Kenneth Branagh, *Much Ado About Nothing* (screenplay, introduction, and notes;
New York & London: Norton, 1993)
under Miscellaneous:
Anthony Burgess, *Nothing Like the Sun* (novel, Ballantine Books, 1965)
Cowell, Stephanie, *Nicholas Cooke* (novel, 1993)
Regards, Chris Gordon/English, University of Minnesota
[The SPINOFF BIBLIO file has been updated based upon the information in these
two posting. If David or Skip would send me the names of the individual poems,
I will make a separate entry for each. --HMC]